Sentence examples for hard note from inspiring English sources

"That's a hard note," Mr. Kulakow said with chagrin.

The story was told in the mix of leather and denim that struck a hard note after a brief outing of snug suits.

It's a hard note to hit, particularly as this Presbyterian minister's son (and onetime disciple of Robert Graves) often strives for an oracular tone, the idea being to come off both modern and mythic.

The perfect note is being able to convey to the parents that 'I'm trying to be fair, … [and] be professional, and yet I understand you and … enough to be able to serve through your anxieties as parents, from concerns that you have due to their prematurity, … their medical conditions …' [However] I think it's a hard note to try to strike.

"It's a hard note [to start on]," said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of intelligence committee happenings.

Monday 21 February Angus gave me hard notes today.

When it begins in those leafless landscapes of February and March, the clean hard notes come pounding over the fields like cannon fire.

Developing a consensus, should the United Nations choose to take up the issue, would be long and hard, noted Dr. Paul Horowitz, a Harvard physics professor and independent SETI researcher.

But the mayor himself has said that making the decision has been hard, noting that he has never been seriously ill before.

Delaying gratification is just hard, notes Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - whether the decision involves spending money or saving it, having a cigarette or quitting, watching one more television show or going to the gym.

"It was a bit hard," notes former Icebergs co-founder, now Pinterest Product Manager César Isern López.